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We have an Emmy winning writer and an Academy Award-winning actor on this week's show! Forest Whitaker is known for playing highly complicated yet fragile characters like Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland" and Charlie Parker in "Bird." Now he's playing Desmond Tutu in "The Forgiven."
Then, Armando Iannucci. He's best known as the creator of HBO's "Veep." His newest project "The Death of Stalin" has many of his classic characters - ambitious and insecure bureaucrats, but this time the stakes are much higher. Show notes

Podcast: Louis Theroux, Author and TV Host

Louis Theroux is an author and television host. His new book, "The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures." He's been reporting on fringe groups and subcultures since he started in television, on the Michael Moore series TV Nation.

In the 1990s, he hosted the series "Weird Weekends," which ran in the United States on the Bravo network. More recently, he's hosted the UK-only series "When Louis Met...", a series of long-form documentaries which investigates some of the odder corners of celebrity culture. His work is often distinguished by a very strong sense of empathy towards his subjects, which has sometimes been interpreted as manipulation for the purpose of mockery, particularly given the generally light tone of his work.

In his new book, Louis rekindles some of the relationships he'd formed in his first television series, and investigates how his subjects have changed and how the nation has changed around them.

Louis himself is half American -- his father is the travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux.